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  • Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident

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  • When the law is unethical, breaking it is a moral duty. The democrats going to jail now have infinitely more spine than the republicans who hurried off to the underground tunnels during J6 only to turn around and claim it was a totally peaceful tour.

  • Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident

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  • Battery. Assault is threatening, battery involves physical touch, no matter how light.

  • Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident

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  • Good thing Merrick Garland dragged his feet, probably so the democrats could fundraise on Trump.

  • Tankie terminology

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  • I need to read up on this. Spain in 1936 seems like one of those points in history that waaaaaay too much shit is quietly connected to. What little I know of it comes from For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • butt mogged these zoomers today

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  • Sorry, middle fingers. Showing the middle finger is sometimes called flipping the bird.

  • butt mogged these zoomers today

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  • Their reactions are fucking great, especially the girl on the left.

  • butt mogged these zoomers today

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  • Straight up, one time we got called out to "check on" a homeless woman sleeping at a bus stop. It's no surprise, people weaponize EMS/Fire to harass sleeping homeless people because the cops sometimes won't do shit and we can't say "no, they're just sleeping and obviously not dead, dipshit", because there's always the one chance that they aren't actually sleeping and really are dead or dying. So, we show up, and fire beat us there. They're checking on her and basically telling us "hold on, she's refusing care." We hold tight and they cut us loose after a few minutes. Well, fire ended up clearing us from the scene. Later on, we run into that same crew, and they told us that on their way to this next call, that same woman ran right out into the middle of the big ass boulevard (it was night), almost in front of them, and started hopping up and down shooting them birds akimbo. Good times.

  • PC taxonomy

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  • One of my favorites that I ever played was a character I where I rolled my stats first and ended up getting a -3 modifier even with mulligan rolls. Every other stat was anywhere from decent to fuckin ballin'. I sat and thought about it for a minute: what stat would be fun, interesting, and challenging to have as a -3? STR would suck, INT and CHA would be anything from really annoying to insufferable or ablist to play (every VERY low int character ever in D&D podcasts is extremely cringe to listen to), so that leaves WIS and DEX. I chose DEX and said that it was because my human fighter was a war veteran with an Above Knee Amputation from the war. From there, I arrived at him using pole arms because they help him to steady himself on his peg leg outside of combat, and that he's deeply uncomfortable with magic, since magic cost him his leg and many comrades in war.

    It led to one of my all time favorite moments in an RP where he and the paladin were dining in a Giant's great hall, having a disagreement about how to proceed, when the Paladin cast a spell on him (I can't remember which, I want to say it was silence or Zone of Truth, but it can't be because it specifically targeted him). My character stared him down, slugged down the rest of the drink, then flipped the table and commenced to trying to murder the paladin. It was a pretty nuts PvP fight, since we both ended up successfully avoiding the party members who were trying to restrain us, landed a few solid blows on each other, and it only ended when the Giants had had enough of our shit.

  • The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Suspend Habeas Corpus. Read That Again.

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  • I can tell you exactly what that looks like. Something something woke something something radical left something else restore America to what it was supposed to be. You might as well ask ChatGPT to explain the Klingon rite of Q'Ronor

  • Daily

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  • Okay, sure, the Faro plague has consumed all of Eurasia, but have you considered seeing a therapist?

  • Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates

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  • Musk deserves a lot more than just a PR dunk, but I'm still not entirely convinced that it's just a cynical PR play. Hopefully Bill will prove me wrong.

  • President proclaims doubling of ICE troops - 20k forces in the next 60 days | Whitehouse.gov

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  • Holy shit this is bad. There's already tons of reports of the already expanded ICE field personnel calling detainees "Mexican bitches" and not following well-established law and law enforcement laws and procedures. At least with local law enforcement, you still get some people joining because they're true believer types that want to really protect and serve. Not everyone, sure, there's plenty of asshats in local enforcement, but there's always a few boy scout types that put on the uniform thinking of helping grandma cross the street and stopping actual bad guys instead of shooting minorities. Nobody who wants to do good in the world is going to be joining ICE right now. It's basically MAGA welfare; get paid to be a gun carrying shitheel whose only qualification is being able to spot brown people. He's effectively making a gestapo here.

  • Crowd tries to stop ICE agents from detaining woman in Massachusetts, 2 arrested

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  • It really, really, really depends on numbers. You get obviously more people with long guns (not even brandishing, just having them sling over) than there are cops who firmly let them know that they should get scarce, then yeah, that's exactly what will happen. Cops have been taught to "go home at the end of the day", whatever it takes, and that typically means eight of them shooting one suspect 200 times. That math changes REAL quick when it's an armed crowd.

  • Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

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  • I'll take whatever win I can get at this point. I just hope that it's actually going to good causes that will actually help people and not just bullshit money laundering "charity" shell games.

  • Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

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  • Yeah, I mean, a quick Google search shows his net worth at 133b. 113b x 0.01 = 1.13 billion dollars.

    For context, bill is 69 yo, and the average US male lives to about 76 yo. That's a difference of six years, or 2190 days. That means that Bill would have to scrape by on just $519,000/day.

  • "You merely adopted the temporal violations. I was born in them, molded by them." - The Janeway

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  • I like how, at one point, an officer on the future time enterprise becomes the bad guy because they just get so pissed off at Voyager dicking around with time that they try to delete Voyager. IIRC, at the end of that episode, the crew thanks the Voyager cast for helping them stop their rogue officer, and then basically says "but seriously, tho, do fuck off, we never want to hear from you again". To which Janeway ultimately says "lol, lmao".

  • Newark Mayor Ras Baraka taken into custody by homeland security in New Jersey

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  • Shiiit, who do they think they are, a fortune 500 company?

    Sarcasm aside, it's completely ridiculous. Even the big guys play nice with the fire service because nobody wants to get fucked by the insurance companies. I think the next step here would be to notify the GEO group's insurers that they have multiple fire safety violations and they're refusing to fix them.

  • Crowd tries to stop ICE agents from detaining woman in Massachusetts, 2 arrested

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  • Yeah, peaceful resistance will probably be handled a bit differently by the cops if everyone in the crowd has a shotgun over their shoulder. Without even brandishing or using them, just knowing that they're there changes the equation a lot. Reminds me of that part of Winter on Fire (a documentary on the 2014 Maidan protests) when the protestors have had enough and declare that they're going to march on the capitol building as armed protestors, and the president can choose to be there or not. After months of shooting and killing unarmed protestors, the cops fucking bailed immediately.

  • Newark Mayor Ras Baraka taken into custody by homeland security in New Jersey

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  • Thank you!